Next year will be the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the movie that changed movies. This year, that honor goes to the novel on which it was based. The beach read of the summer of 1974, Peter Benchley's Jaws captured "the angst of a generation." It became a bestseller and changed the public's attitude toward sharks, a fact that filled the conservationist Benchley with regret in later years.
Here are some of the best information sources for Jaws, sharks, and the ocean.